Marvin Nathan Kaye (March 10, 1938 – May 13, 2021)[1] was an American mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror author, anthologist, and editor.

Kaye was a World Fantasy Award winner and served as co-publisher and editor of Weird Tales Magazine.

His book, The Stein and Day Handbook of Magic is considered an essential part of any magician's library.

As an actor, Kaye appeared on Broadway with Dame Edna, off-Broadway with Keir Dullea in the critically acclaimed Strings, and in many shows with The Open Book, including a cappella musical The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, which he adapted for the stage.

The Open Book performed Kaye's adaptation of his own novel, The Last Christmas of Ebenezer Scrooge, annually for several years.

Kaye authored nineteen novels including the science fiction cult classics, The Incredible Umbrella and (co-authored with Parke Godwin) The Masters of Solitude, and the critically acclaimed mysteries Bullets for Macbeth and My Son, the Druggist.

[6] In the summer of 2011, Kaye purchased America's oldest supernatural periodical (dating back to 1923), Weird Tales Magazine, with John Harlacher.

In August 2012, Kaye announced that Weird Tales was going to publish an excerpt from Victoria Foyt's controversial novel Save the Pearls, which many critics accused of featuring racist stereotyping.

[8] Kaye wrote an essay titled "A Thoroughly NONRACIST Novel" defending his decision to publish the excerpt.